A question about priestsFollow

paladins are the best single target healers.
shamans/druids are for group healing, or off healing the tanks.
priests can main heal but they lack the crit and mana pool of paladins so most times they are brought as buffers/and group healers.

I say yes.

We can heal over time, bounce a heal from player to player, single target heal, and group heal. We dispell magic and cure disease. We shackle undead and buff up the raid.

The only one who sometimes outheals me in our raids is another holy priest. I think all healers are great, but I'll stick with a priest.

Edited, Jan 7th 2008 10:30pm by dadanox

Druids are master of the HoT. Get a resto druid in a group, and he can keep 3 stacks of lifebloom plus rejuv up on 2-3 targets, getting a lot of healing every tick. Much more than a priest can get with renew, or renew+GotN for drannys.
Druids are also great at healing on the move. Not only can they stay on the move really well, they also have more instant cast healing spells than any other healer.

Paladins are master of the single-target heal. While other classes can come close, paladins reign supreme on that one target situation. Paladins are also great heal-tanks, i.e. if the fight will involve a healer taking damage, the paladin can throw on some threat generation and be the healer that gets aggro, thus a plate gets hit instead of a clothy. Lots of paladins is also a good thing, since you get lots of buffs. A survival hunter, for example, may want kings, salvation, might, and wisdom - all require an extra paladin.

Shamans have the AoE, and also have quite a bit of utility in their totems. I'm not a big fan of shamans, but they have their place.

Priests, on the other hand, have most of what the other classes have. Shamans may have the AoE, but priests (especially with CoH) come close. Paladins may have the single-target, but priests come close. Druids may have the HoT...well preists are nowhere near there with just renew, but between PW:S, renew, and other utility heal-spells, priests have their place. Plus, a discipline priest can buff up all the healers and casters by a bit. I don't think though that priests are the best at anything...but they're second on everything.

Sort of like how I view my warrior...some fights I think a druid would be a slightly better choice, but a pally much worse; other fights I think a pally would be a slightly better choice, but a druid much worse; all in all I'm about 10% below the "better" class, but probably twice as capable as the other.

Druids, Paladins and Shamans all have their strengths and weaknesses. They are incredibly powerful at one aspect of healing (HoT, single target, AOE) and either competent, weak, or incapable at the others. Shamans and Paladins have trouble in fights that require healing on the run, for example, and Druids can be overwhelmed by damage spikes.

Priests, on the other hand, can adapt to any healing situation. This makes them the ideal 5-man healers as well as huge assets in multi-phase raid boss fights where different phases call for very different healing styles.

A 15 second spell with a 3 min cooldown is better than mp5? I think not, paladins use mp5 as much as priests do. Although priests can count on their spirit a lot more than a paladin can. When you reach 350-400 mp5 while casting buffed you'll see that a priest can have mana forever, not to mention the fall back of the spirit mana regen and the earring of soulful meditation.

Lets take karathress as an example. I always healed the priest tank, myself, and the rogue. This was when my mp5 was a lot less too. I would demolish the healing because as a priest i kept up 3 people for 75%. The paladin would heal the karathress tank by himself until the shaman was down, at this point the paladin would need his own healer. His healer was not only to keep him alive but to also keep his mana up. Paladins just aren't meant to spam holy light over and over.

Could there have been a priest over there healing the karathress tank solo? hell no the priest would have died from the spitfire totems. Each class has it's place. Yes paladin is a more sought after class, but it has nothing to do with their healing. It is all about them being able to stay alive longer.




In BT/Hyjal is when the resto shammys really start to pull away. We were all on par with our 2 shammys until then, now they are usually 14%, while priest, pallys and druids are around 10%.

I have seen druids make the best healers. They dont need to take time to cast spells, risking the target die in the process. Could be just the way they are speced, but I have not seen a priest heal more efficiently than a druid.
There are not lots of druids on my server at high levels, so it's likely the ones I seen had no choice but to be the best out of need.

That's great you stand by your statement, but until you actually have a **** load of mp5 you really wouldn't know.

I hate to tell you but i have yet to be out healed by anything other than another holy priest. though she was specced circle healing, i am always fighting her for #1 imn our 25 mans. Dont get me wrong the shamans are right behind but if a holy priest plays his or her class effectively, we can out heal, out perform any other healing class there is.




your out of your mind. if you set a druid beside a holy priest same skill level and mana pools, and everything, the holy priest is going to out heal him over and over again. The druid is very mana efficient but if you are a smart priest and you have 2k healing like myself in my pve gear, you DOWN RANK YOUR SPELLS!!!!!

A druid doesn't do this and has more over healing than any other healing class.

If you want to talk trash about healing and priest not being number one.....take this trash to the druid forms


Edited, Jan 15th 2008 5:13am by Agoge